Disabling volume protection

You can disable a system-wide setting that prevents volumes from being deleted.

About this task

Use the chsystem command to disable volume protection. Volume protection prevents volumes from being inadvertently deleted. When this setting is enabled, you need to specify an interval that volumes must be idle before they can be deleted from the system. Volumes can only be deleted if they have been idle for the specified interval. When volume protection is disabled, volumes can be deleted even if they have recently processed I/O operations. The following commands are affected by this setting:
  • rmvdisk
  • rmvolume
  • rmvdiskcopy
  • rmvdiskhostmap
  • rmmdiskgrp
  • rmhostiogrp
  • rmhost
  • rmhostport

To disable volume protection, complete this step:

Procedure

Issue svctask chsystem -vdiskprotectionenabled no.